Yes, I admit some of the questions could have been better phrased. If I do another test, as I hope to, I’ll try to crowdsource this. It would have been easier to come up with good questions if I had had social scientists and scientists in relevant fields on board. Also, I think that would minimize unclarities, and so on (more eyes, etc).
That said, we did a fair amount of pre-testing on Mechanical Turk and on friends.
I had an issue with the phrasing of “are GMOs good for humans”, that’s a different claim than the linked article makes, which is that GMOS are “good for human health”. I put I don’t know because we don’t know what the environmental impact will be in the long run, and if that will be a net positive or negative for humans.
Yes, I admit some of the questions could have been better phrased. If I do another test, as I hope to, I’ll try to crowdsource this. It would have been easier to come up with good questions if I had had social scientists and scientists in relevant fields on board. Also, I think that would minimize unclarities, and so on (more eyes, etc).
That said, we did a fair amount of pre-testing on Mechanical Turk and on friends.
I had an issue with the phrasing of “are GMOs good for humans”, that’s a different claim than the linked article makes, which is that GMOS are “good for human health”. I put I don’t know because we don’t know what the environmental impact will be in the long run, and if that will be a net positive or negative for humans.